Julie Bindel
15 posts todayRT @jessphillips: @HarrietHarman @den_jw I shall join you
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayRT @8RosarioSanchez: @Docstockk Thank you, Kathleen. And for everything you do in academia and for academia! 💜
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayHappy birthday @wondersbec xxx
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayAnthony Williams case: Came out in court that the couple never socialised. Unhappy relationship (at least for her). Ruth did everything - housework, washing, ironing, cooking, etc. The day she answered him back ("get over it") and broke the 'rules' ...
Julie Bindel
15 posts todaySo it turns out that some of us feminists were right to be appalled at the Anthony Williams case when he was successful with pleading not guilty to murder, and NOT waylaid like silly little girls by irresponsible or inaccurate reporting. FIVE YEARS!
Julie Bindel
15 posts today1/2 Having had her murder conviction substituted to that of manslaughter, on the grounds that her responsibility was diminished as a result of the decades of abuse, Sally Challen was handed down a 14 year sentence by the judge (she had served 9 years ...
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayA word of warning: any 'dispassionate, rational' legal experts that fancy trying out a hot take in my direction on the Anthony Williams sentence, please talk amongst yourselves. I've been dealing with these cases for more than three decades, so I ...
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayRuth Williams, strangled to death by her husband, joins the long, long list of women subjected to femicide, and he joins the long list of men who are given sympathy and understanding by the judge.
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayRT @HWistrich: OMG Anthony Williams has just been given a five year sentence for strangling his wife to death after he 'just snapped'. This demonstrates the institutionalised sexism in the CJS as our report on women who kill launched yesterday ...
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayI am so angry about the sympathy directed towards men like Anthony Williams, who the judge described as a 'model citizen' when there are countless women who killed to save their own lives after decades of abuse rotting away in prison, separated from ...
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayThis is our recently published research on women who kill as a response to domestic terrorism. You might want to have a look at the section re how men often get away with murder but women are unduly punished for defending themselves: ...
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayI wrote this three years ago: https://t.co/qyQuIa...
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayFIVE YEARS! Five fucking years for killing his wife. The women we represent at @justice4women are ACTUALLY model citizens, and kill in SELF DEFENCE but on the rare occasion they get manslaughter not murder they get, on average TWELVE YEARS! TOTAL ...
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayRT @SusannaRustin: For 2nd issue of @Radical_Notion magazine I've written about Time and Tide - an exceedingly interesting (& until recently largely forgotten) British feminist mag from another crucial period of women's politics: the 20s & ...
Julie Bindel
15 posts todayMajor respect to @janeclarejones and team for reviving and revitalising PROPER feminist periodicals xxx https://t.co/WX4XJz...